"It is the first step that counts"

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If you want to experience feelings of failure, omit the first and start with the second step in your plan. No matter how well you’ve done, it’s too late for you to gain a success. Because the first step is the most difficult that have an important effect on your final result, as people said, “It is the first step that counts”. Don’t get overwhelmed that both the first and the last are tough and think you have to treat them equally. A good beginning makes a good ending. This inherent notion is exemplified by a number of prominent instances throughout literature as well as modern life. The definition of “first” as the one coming before all the other things in a series is quite familiar to us. But there is another meaning of “first” indicating something that is main, that is the most important one. The source of proverbs containing our descendants’ experiences gives us a prodigious number of evidences for this adage. “All that is well ends well” stresses that the key to success is to get a good beginning. When you’ve already had a great start, all roads lead to Rome. Additionally, not only “A good beginning is half the battle” but also “Well begun is half done” emphasize that the start is much more difficult than the finish or any other steps in your “Way to Success” plan. Another illustration of the difficulty of the first step in a process that you have to do in order to deal with a problem or to succeed occurs also in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Williams Shakespeare’s romantic comedy. If Hermia and her lover, Lysander, hadn’t decided to elope by escaping through the forest at night which was obviously not easy, they would have had a happy ending at the end of the play. Someone said that it is because Puck removed the magical enchantment from Lysander or Theuseus over-ruled Egeus’s demands and arranged their wedding. What if Hermia didn’t refuse her father’s
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